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EAP Research Projects Information To Be Placed On Website Digitising the photographic archive of Southern Siberian indigenous peoples bamum script and archives project saving africas written heritage http://www.lisbetrausingcharitablefund.org/EAPgrants2005final_000.htm
Extractions: Research grants awarded in 2005 Principal Investigator Host institution Title of project Location of archival material Award Duration Pilot projects Dr Alexandru Balesescu Royal University for Women Kingdom of Bahrain Faces and places in Iran. Iranian photography at the turn of the 19 th century Iran 1 month Dr Patrick Darling Independent researcher Making Professor Ade Obayemis life work available to the world Nigeria 1 month Professor Anne Feldhaus Arizona State University Preserving Marathi manuscripts and making them accessible Maharashtra State, India 12 months Dr Rolf Foerster University of Chile Identification of the potential corpus for a Mapuche special historical collection Chile 9 months Mr Carlos Liberato de Sousa York University, Canada Pilot project to seek, identify, contact and report on collections of the endangered archives of the states of Maranh o and Par in the Amazon region of Brazil Brazil 12 months Dr Verlon Stone Indiana University Rescuing Liberian history: a pilot study to preserve and enable access to Liberias Presidential and National Archives Liberia 8 months Mr Richard Overy Australian National University Tuvalu National Archives preservation pilot project Pacific Islands of Tuvalu 1 month Major research projects Dr David Anderson University of Aberdeen Digitising the photographic archive of Southern Siberian indigenous peoples Southern Siberia, Russia
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art - The Met Store inhabited by Tabwa and related peoples, the White Large numbers of indigenous religioussculpture as well as reign of Njoya, king of bamum, is characterized by http://www.metmuseumstore.com/toah/ht/11/sfc/ht11sfc.htm
Angus Robertson, almost every theatre of war in africa, Middle East Images from bamum. By ChristraudM. Geary, Prentice Hall of the photography of the indigenous peoples of the http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/PopCat.asp?storeurl=angusrobertson&PageNo=24&ca
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Extractions: The Basel Mission Society (Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft Basel) was founded in 1815 in the city of Basel by members of the Deutsche Christentums Gesellschaft. One notable feature of the Basel Mission was that it was international and interdenominational from its onset. Its patrons were drawn the Pietist circles of Switzerland and neighboring southern Germany. The Pietist movement emerged in Germany in the late 17 th century, and shared important commonalities with the Protestant movement. It stressed the decentralization of church management and life, and preferred action to formalism. Protestantism had been declared in Basel in 1529. The Kingdom of Württemberg and the Principality of Baden in Germany were both major supporters of the Basel Mission. The establishment of the Basel Mission was part of a general trend in Europe towards the formation of mission societies among Protestants and the deployment of trained missionaries in foreign fields. The late 18 th and early 19 th centuries witnessed the founding of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792; the London Missionary Society (non-denominational) in 1795; and the Church Missionary Society (Anglican), the Wesleyan Missionary Society (Methodist) and the Scottish Presbyterian Society were all formed in 1799. In North America the Board of Foreign Missions was established in 1810. These mission societies were an active part of the drive for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of slaves in European colonies. In the first half of the nineteenth century, they extended their activities to the African continent in an endeavor to rectify the harm done by centuries of slave trading. The Basel Mission College was set up in 1816 to prepare missionaries from all over Europe for foreign mission work, reflecting a network that encompassed Pietists and Protestants.
Extractions: See also Eastern Africa Guinea Coast Southern Africa , and Western and Central Sudan Pablo Picasso to the British Vorticists to explore new subjects and methods of visual representation. The imposition of colonial boundaries and governmental systems gives rise to developing national consciousness among many Central Africans, inspiring movements to achieve political independence and reclaim indigenous African identity, such as Mobuto Sese Seko's "authenticity" campaign and Tshibumba Kanda Matulu's series of paintings on Congolese history. In what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo, a ritual expert ( nganga ) and the Yombe artist known today as the Chiloango River Master collaborate on the creation of a corpus of distinctive minkisi , or monumental power figures, called Mangaaka. Used by diviners to consult the spiritual realm for solutions to earthly crises, these works are characterized by their massive scale, naturalistic appearance, and intricately carved representations of knotted fiber headgear. The White Fathers, a Catholic missionary group organized to seek conversions in non-Christian areas of Africa, is established in the southeastern Congo. Originally seeking to carve out an independent "Christian Kingdom" within territory largely inhabited by Tabwa and related peoples, the White Fathers sponsor missionary schools and produce dictionaries, grammars, and a translation of the Bible in the local KiTabwa language. After 1900, as control over the Belgian Free State is consolidated and ultimately transferred to the Belgian republican government, the White Fathers abandon territorial aspirations and focus on conversion. Large numbers of indigenous religious sculpture as well as trees and stones associated with earth spirit sites are destroyed, while others are confiscated and sent to White Fathers headquarters in Belgium and Rome.
Extractions: See also Eastern Africa Guinea Coast Southern Africa , and Western and Central Sudan The British ban on the international slave trade and the development of Arab-Swahili caravan routes from eastern Africa shifts the trade in slaves to the east. In western Central Africa, heightened demand for local African products such as ivory, wax, and rubber allows previously subjugated or isolated peoples such as the Chokwe to rise to economic prominence and displace traditional powers such as the far-flung Lunda and Luba states . Further east, the Arab-Swahili trade also deprives these polities of the trade on which they are dependent. The emergence of numerous small-scale chiefdoms results in the production of new forms of ornate and luxurious courtly arts across Central Africa. Elsewhere, extended periods of migration in present-day Gabon and political consolidation in modern Cameroon lead to the development of new forms of funerary and courtly art. The European partition of Africa in 1884 provides state support for German, Belgian, English, and Portuguese expeditions into Central Africa that supply newly created ethnographic museums and geographic societies with specimens of material culture from the region.
Bamum Script And Archives Project: Saving Africas Written Heritage Information about Dr Konrad Tuchscherers bamum script and archives project. and transcribed in an indigenous African writing system the bamum script http://www.bl.uk/about/policies/endangeredarch/tuchscherer.html
Extractions: The above documents are all endangered. The documents in the one-room Bamum Palace Archives, for the most part, suffer less from the ravages of environmental destruction than those in private collections, but the environmental damage is still immense. Another threat to documents is theft and sale, fuelled by the international trade in Bamum art and antiquities. and In the early twentieth century the Bagam people of Cameroon employed a pre-modern alphabet for record-keeping, correspondence, and for farming calendars. Today not a single document exists in Cameroon in the Bagam script, the alphabet having disappeared without a trace. The only known example of the Bagam script is held in the Haddon Library of Cambridge University, deposited by a British military officer who served in Cameroon in the First World War. Immediate action is necessary if Bamum is not to suffer a similar fate.
African Culture - Society On The Internet The web site for her course peoples and Cultures of africa has information onthe Mande, Indilinga african Journal of indigenous Knowledge Systems http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html
Extractions: CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Geographer Thomas Bassett wants to put African mapmaking on the map. Toward that goal, Bassett, a geography professor at the UI, has written and provided illustrations for one of the first reviews of indigenous African maps, hoping along the way to dispel some of the major myths about mapmaking in sub-Saharan Africa. Bassett's review is published in "The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies," Vol. 2, Book 3. In January, the volume received the American Historical Association's Brested Prize for the best English-language book in the ancient and medieval history of Africa, North America and Latin America.
Africa Update Archives bamum and Nsibidi of West africa, constitute some of indigenous africa s africans learned to speak a perfect French, to behave like French people, http://www.ccsu.edu/afstudy/upd4-2.html
Extractions: We have also included in this issue of Africa Update some comments by Ayele Bekerie of Cornell University on the Ethiopic Writing System, an African system of writing which is about 4000 years old, and, along with other African writing systems such as Meroitic and Egyptian Hieroglyphics of North-East Africa as well as Vai, Bamum and Nsibidi of West Africa, constitute some of indigenous Africa's writing systems. We have included in this issue of Africa Update a brief comment from the New Nation, Johannesburg, South Africa. A number of us here at CCSU share similar views.
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Extractions: Thesis: "The Northern Factor in Asante Art." B.A. (summa cum laude) Art History. University of California, Los Angeles. June 1975. Areas of general interest Arts of sub-Saharan Africa, African Diaspora, Native North America, Oceania, Islam, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, 20th century Mexico; aesthetic dimensions of culture evolution; art and religion. Primary research interest Interaction between sub-Saharan West Africa and the cultures of the Islamic Middle East and the West; Ethiopian aesthetic tradition. Employment history Interim Chair, Department of Art. Michigan State University. Summer 1999 to present. Coordinator, Museum Studies Program. Michigan State University. Summer 1999 to present.
Background History indigenous Glassworks of Bida, Nupeland, Nigeria, West africa bamum(Cameroon),.Vai (Liberia),. Nsibidi (Nigeria/Cameroon), http://www.africahistory.net/afrihist.htm
Extractions: AFRICA'S HISTORY Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University. Northeast Africa is the cradle of African civilization.Note (a) AFRICAN LEGACY, and the significance of a range of newly discovered sites which include: (b)The world's oldest stone tools dated 2.5 million years. See http://exn.ca/hominids/home (Discovery Channel) (c) Olduvai, Northern Tanzania-second oldest in the world with tools dated 2.1 million years (d) Blombos Cave, South Africa where in 2003 the world's oldest jewellery, in the form of 41 perforated shell beads, were found. Here we have evidence of stylized art work as well as the kind of symbolism and creativity we associate with modern humans. See South Africa museums,Cape Town (www.museum.org.za/sam/muse/9904/htm) (e)At Loiyangalani, Tanzania,East Africa, in the Serengeti National Park, decorated ostrich eggshell beads were discovered by archeologists. They point also to early human creativity. These were found March 2004, in layers dated between 280,000 and 40,000 years. More precise dates for the beadwork will emerge in due course. See www.CBC.ca/stories/2004/03/31/sci-tech/beads040331.
Diasporal Imagination: On The Subject Of Kings And Queens: spiritual training based on cultural expressions indigenous to africa. Things of the Palace a catalogue of the bamum Palace in Foumban (Cameroon. http://www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v7/v7i1a4.htm
Extractions: Print/Download PDF [ Instructions: Print/Download PDF] And Palm Wine Will Flow INTRODUCTION And Palm Wine Will Flow th and early 20 th I use the term imagination to argue that the emphasis on regal power typifying African American conceptions of traditional African leadership and society are not based entirely on historical or archeological facts about African nations. DIASPORAL IMAGINATION On some accounts, it would seem integral to the reconstruction of African identity to recreate systems of hierarchical governance. The importance of royalty and status of various forms can be found, for example, in a press announcement of the Ausar Auset Society for the 25 th TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY The choice of a leader was politically charged and if contestation arose, many traditional African cultures employed ritual checks and balances for resolving conflicts, especially those relating to succession issues. Some offices had categorical requirements of gender or age that narrowed the competition. In some cases certain responsibilities fell to the eldest male or youngest female, or choices could be be made between several people of approximately the same age. A prescribed inheritance pattern that connected certain classes or families is sometimes required. For example, Tangwa describes a particular strategy where the leader is chosen from a committee comprised of distinct gender and class representatives.
African Studies Center | Publications | Index Becoming indigenous in africa The Globalization of Maasai and Barabaig EthnicIdentities, Killer Chill Poems for the South african peoples Struggle, http://www.bu.edu/africa/publications/index/indextopic.html
Extractions: CENTER PUBLICATIONS BY MAJOR TOPIC Agriculture Arts/Art History Development Diaspora ... Women And Gender African Studies Center publications series listed here are intended to highlight the research of scholars affiliated with Boston University or the work of other scholars presented at Boston University. Note: These entries are listed alphabetically by title within each topic Explanation of code numbers (used for ordering): AH WP, and AAIC refer to article-length papers in Discussion Papers in the African Humanities (AH), Working Papers of the African Studies Center (WP), and African-American Issues Center Papers (AAIC). ARS refers to a paperback monograph in the African Research Studies. AFDOC refers to a book in the African Historical Documents series.
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Excalibur Online The movement towards the development of an indigenous African film practice beganin records existed among such communities as the bamum and Akan peoples. http://www.excal.on.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=258&Itemid=71
